This is the first of two posts about “How I work”. In this entry I want to write about my traditional art. The second one will be about my digital art.

Though I’ve created mainly a digital art for some time, I have a special liking for a traditional art, because it has been accompanying me since I can remember. What’s more, my adventure with the digital art has been started form the traditional art of course.

When I was a kid I liked coloring books the most. And I had abilities to create a beautiful drawing, but I didn’t really like to do it. Now drawing gives me joy, but only when I have an inspiration.

Drawings

I draw with pencil, charcoal, ball pens, etc. but I like drawing with gel pens the most and

making a kind of comic art. I’ve always liked to do it, cause it has always made me feel better. Unfortunately in my experience most people consider you to be talented only if you create a hyper realistic pictures… So in order to prove everyone and first of all myself that I have a talent, I started to draw some realistic portraits and other images. I think they’re not bad, however I prefer doing something different, what I wrote before. The work on the right titled Moja historia, moje życie (My history, my life) was created for about two weeks. You can read something more about it on Invisible Emerald, my artistic site with inter alia poetry and prose: http://wp.me/p6UcDX-b. This drawing is me, however I made it two years ago, and I am still making my history so there are a lot of things that should be added there now. 😉

I also like to create charcoal drawings. They are more artistic. But I usually choose charcoal to more realistic works.

I prefer drawing than painting. Anyway sometimes I feel like I have to paint something. And then it’s like a ritual:

I buy a canvas, acrylic paints, and sometimes brushes as well.

After coming back home I think a lot about my painting.

Same day or another day (when my inspiration is the strongest) I unpack the canvas and gently stroke it with solemnity. I love to feel its texture under my fingers and palms. There is only canvas and me and my inspiration.

Then I am under the influence of my inspiration entirely so I begin painting.

Maybe it sounds kind a weird, but yea, that’s what I do anytime I want to paint.

Each of my artwork (traditional or digital) is like a piece of my soul. There are a lot of symbols in my art. Some of them are well-known the other are only known to me.

Why in these digital times I still creating traditional art? Because there is something more important in life… and some thing cannot be replaced like touching canvas or paper, holding pencil, charcoal, etc., and I think it’s quite a nice feeling to be dirty after work for artists, well at least for me. 😉

Sometimes I give my works (traditional art) a new life, and then they turn into a digital art. But I’m going to write about it in the next post. 🙂

Title of this entry is also the title of one of my first 3D image I made. I’ve become interested in 3D modeling in 2016 I guess, especially I’ve been practicing intensely it since summer, and as a result creating 3D images (I work in Blender). As supposedly you know, I am a self-taught artist, therefore some tutorials on YouTube have helped me learning 3D modeling – I can recommend: tutor4u that I began my adventure with Blender from, and of course well-known to all people learning Blender I guess: Blender Guru. Needless to say, there are other tutorials as well, which I watch/use, however especially these two are recommended by me, if you want to learn Blender too.

After practices with tutorials I wanted to make something mine. Using acquired knowledge I created exactly Glass ball on fabric. Fabric is purple color, because I love this color, and glass ball is a marble. Why a marble? Because with similar ball I have an important, personal recollection connected with friendship and love. And that’s why the marble in this project is located on fabric. It is symbol of care and protection (and to me personally: support and love).

Imagination and of course inspiration are necessary to create every project. I often derive inspiration from my dreams. There’s nothing weird about that, after all art and dreams have a lot in common.

What is common between dreams and art?

When we look at painting or sculpture, we see, at first glance only superficiality, what it shows. Only preciser analysis of artwork, knowledge about the author, as well as knowledge of symbolism and e.g. beliefs, lifestyle in a century, enable us to know a deeper meaning of the artwork. The same with dreams, but in this case already in the middle of dreaming we have access to something more, extrasensory perception. We feel more than we would feel if it were “in reality”.

For example: If you dream that a stranger is coming to you and he reels up to you, then you often know at once, how he is, who he is, what he wants from you, what he’s going to do, what happens later, whether you should be afraid of him, etc.

However sometimes (or often) even our experience during dreaming doesn’t explain us the dream meaning. If we want to know its meaning, we need to think about it, try to interpret individually symbol, which appeared there.

Be careful: Very personal inspiration!

Dreams are art of our mind, and maybe our soul. One way or another, to me they are special art, because it’s private for each of us.

Here are some of my projects, inspired by dreams:

The key to the safe place

Driver

Jeremiah

Hanging Roses

Let me add that presented two 3D images (The key to the safe place and Hanging Roses) and the digital painting (Driver) are depicting scenes from my dreams, only the hybrid Jeremiah is simply inspired (by dreams), not exact (as far as possible of course) mapped from the dream.

It’s not always so easy (in Poland we can say: it’s not always so “pink” ; ) )

Everything I wrote seems to be so beautiful: dreams and art – perfect combination. Sure it is beautiful, at least to me, but it’s hard to me as well. Not every dream is nice, in my case such dream occurs rarely. Don’t be misled by the pink color in The key to the safe place. 😉 Of course behind the door is safely, wonderfully, pleasantly, however moments that I had experienced before I opened it, weren’t pleasant. In this work I wanted to present what I judged the most important and the most beautiful from the dream.

What is other difficulty to overcome, when someone decides to present something from their dream in the artwork? Well, I don’t know about you, but my dreams leave aftertaste for a long time. Of course if a dream means something. If I show my dream as an image, it usually means that when I woke up I knew it must be drawn/designed/created. And until I make the picture, thought of it doesn’t leave my head. Unfortunately sometimes it’s hard. While creating the feelings of the dream are returning and you experience also feeling of exposure. Nevertheless when I’m done my project I am happy, fulfilled.

I’ve fallen in love with digital painting for some time. Occasionally I devote a lot of time to make such an artwork, but it also happens that I create something spontaneously and fast. Though work isn’t complex, the effects are satisfied to me, because the finished image resembles its vision, which appeared in my mind beforehand. (English version is continued below the Polish version)

The above artworks titled Wind of day and night and Calmness are exactly such a spontaneous, fast made images. To this blog entry I chose them precisely because they are alike. Both images depict night. You can see that though sky is cloudy, the clouds aren’t obscuring the stars. Both pictures are landscapes and there are black feathers visible in them. Furthermore they have something in common; emotions, especially those which accompanied me while I was creating them.

Why Calmness is calmness? Because I was feeling exactly this emotion, this feeling that is calmness, while I was creating the image. Take notice, that the feather is slowly drifting in the air. Can you see how it’s slowly falling down to the ground? Incense smoke is also slowly wafting. It represents something more, spiritual world existence. Night is mysterious, beautiful; at night we can better see the light – hope, aims that is represented by the stars.

And what kind of feeling is conveyed in Wind of day and night? Interpretation is free. To me it’s joy, action, zeal, passion… The wind, power, passion is driving feathers and little sparks (which prompt to act as well). The field is bright, as in the daytime. Cereal (“gold” grass or carpet – again interpretation is free) is waving under wind influence, which adding dynamism. And again there is a night, conveying the same as in the previous image.

As it happens, Calmness was my first “adventure” with digital painting, and as I’m writing this post, Wind of day and night is my last 2D image for now, created in digital painting technique. Supposedly I will create more such spontaneous images, also with black feathers…

I’m delighted to welcome you on refreshed site, which was designed for my portfolio in the past. Now you can visit my portfolio here. This is the first entry on the blog so you can get know how it will function.

First: I don’t think I will often publish entries. I realize that there are a lot of bloggers or vloggers in this day and age and people expect publishing new materials in a regular way. However I am an introvert by nature or if you wish I am antisocial, secretive so sharing everything, writing about anything and especially about myself in large part would be against my nature. And I’ try to be true to myself.

Second: here, on the blog I’ll publish the entries relative to my works, inspirations and maybe also what I use to create my artworks. What else will be published – time will tell. 😉